Monday, September 1, 2008

How to Hack Mario Kart Wii Online for Unlimited Items Including Blue Shells

Update: looks like it's easier to cheat nowadays. If you install the homebrew channel, you can enable cheats from there. I don't know the specifics, so feel free to leave a comment if you know any more than that.

Update (6/19/09): from reader Rosalina, you can indeed hack it from the homebrew channel:

Use Legend of the Twilight Princess game to get Homebrew Channel and thenGo to File and then open TXT file. Then select rmce01 is Mario Kart Wii's ID. Then go to add a code/comment. Type in as many as you want but make sure you call it what it is called in the Mario Kart Wii Instructions Manual. And make sure you put “Infinite” before the power you want (the most fun powers are Star, Mega Mushroom, Triple Red Turtle Shells, Triple Green Turtle Shells, Bullet Bil l(the rocket) and some time Triple Banana, Fake Item Box and Bomb-omb.) OK? Now type the codes in the code box {codes are at www.usbgecko.com/codes}. Insert the SD Card into the PC and then go to 'Export to GCT' and select your SD Card. Insert the SD Card into your Wii and go to the Homebrew Channel and press start. You will be able to hack Mario Kart on the Homebrew Channel. My guess to stop hacking Mario Kart is to take your SD Card out of your Wii.

This information is out of date, but I'll leave it here for posterity:I did some digging and this guy who goes by the handle /dexter0 (aka ihack@you) appears responsible for this nonsense (46 pageviews when I accessed it), but I could be wrong. It appears this hack is accomplished using a USB Gecko attachment, which is pretty much like an Action Replay or a GameShark.

He basically just edits the database values that represent your item box status to choose what item you have at any point (resulting in unlimited items).

From /dexter0 (aka ihack@you):

These codes were hacked under NTSC-USA. And since they involve assembly hacking, they are not easily ported. So don't ask for PAL or JP codes.

It really stinks that people are using this hack at the expense of others' enjoyment of the game. I would hope that Nintendo starts monitoring matches for these sorts of things or sets up a complaint system or something.

I'm not responsible for the hack itself or the way prepubescent spoilsports choose to use it. I just documented it as an emerging curiosity.

Eventually, almost all online games get hacked in some way or another. Even rabidly policed platforms such as Xbox Live are rife with asswipes intentionally creating and exploiting connection lag.

I recommend that, if you encounter some unscrupulous individual using this (or any other) hack, take note of their screen name, disconnect, and refuse to play with them in the future. It's not a perfect solution, obviously, but it's the only thing we can do.

I ran into a guy by the name of ICEDout. He had VR 35000. When he raced he had unlimited green shells and he would wait at the end of a straight stretch and throw them back. He would lose the race and lose 2500 points, the only bonus was that all the other players would get 200+ points.

OMG it's so unbelievable blameful -.- .... I had a race with someone who called himself Player .... you see .. you cant get him with his name -.- ... but everytime when he falls down he get up right away and can go on driving .. and now comes the funny thing .... I bached him on "Rainbow Boulevard" (i dont know what the name is in englisch because im german and i have the german version) ... isnt it funny? ^^ ... to stupid for winning with hacks xD ... and when you ever come across him ... lough at him and bach him again for me ;)

On time trials some idiot named travis I think has the record on almost every track with a time of less than a socond. It ticks me off because I want to race against some GOOD people. Let's get rid of these losers.

I lost about 500 points today in MarioKart, seriously because I physically get nothing after a win. But alast I find myself in raged over the fact that some computer geek has hacked the system. I know that I earned the points I have 8700-9500 is my range. I now don't don't care about these losers cause I find it fun coming back out of the ashes like the pheonix I am lmao. nintendo makes great online game(Mariokart only) I wish they cared more about thier supporters and watch ppl that hack, if anyone wants to play me holla or look for D.U.I I'm the best LOL

Thanks for making a great game suck. These cheaters are massive loser dicks and it shows they couldn't play a game the honest way. There is no honor in cheating, and just because you "can" doesn't mean you should.

Im glad other people have saw this. I came in last night and played online while very drunk and thought I was sleeping or something, kept on getting blue shelled every time i was in front, even right after the start of the race.

It was pretty annoying, but i did manage to win a couple of races with this kind of cheating going on (another player had unlimited bananas, made for a slippery rainbow road). I will be avoiding anyone doing this in the future though, its just gay.

The only reason I would hack someone is to back at them for hacking me. I have been hacked before, but am not a hacker. I would love to become one so I started to work on it with my brother. Here are the steps to becoming a hacker:

Materials:A Homebrew Channel on your Nintendo Wii

A one-gig SD Card

Ocarina in your SD Card

Legend of the Twilight Princess for Wii

Use Legend of the Twilight Princess game to get Homebrew Channel and then Go to File and then open TXT file.Then select rmce01 is Mario Kart Wii's ID.Then go to add a code/comment.Type In as many as you want but make sure you call it what it is called in the Mario Kart Wii Instructions Manual.And make sure you put “Infinite” before the power you want(the most fun powers are Star,Mega Mushroom,Triple Red Turtle Shells,Triple Green Turtle Shells,Bullet Bill(the rocket)and some time Triple Banana,Fake Item Box and Bomb-omb.OK?Now type the codes in the code box{codes are at www.usbgecko.com/codes}.Insert the SD Card into the PC and then go to Export to GCT and select your SD Card.Insert the SD Card into your Wii and go to the HBC{The Homebrew Channel}and press start.You will be able to hack Mario Kart on the Homebrew Channel.My guess to Stop hacking Mario Kart is to take your SD Card out of your Wii.

I'm so close to getting hacks and wanted to share more info I got about becoming a hacker. I would like to warn you all that you can only get banned if you are online and hacking at the same time, breaking the NINTENDO user agreement! Whatever you do outside their network is your business unless you use non Nintendo hardware or software to do it, or you modify the system hardware to do it, thus breaking the warranty agreement! Now that you have been warned about what may happen here is what you will need:

A Homebrew Channel on your Nintendo Wii

A one-gig SD Card

Ocarina in your SD Card

Legend of the Twilight Princess

I suggest you do not buy the Twilight game for you will not need it later. Once you have the Homebrew Channel you can dowload free games. These games will not help you get hacks, but are fun to play!!!

Now that you have the Homebrew channel you need to download Ocarina program.Once you have that hook up your SD card to your computer and download all the hacks you want onto the card using the Ocarine program. When you have finished that take the SD card out and put it in your wii along with the Mario Kart Wii game. Now go to the Homebrew Channel and open the Ocarine Program and make sure everything works. If everything is working correctly then congrats, and go have fun with your hacks!!! If everything is not okay then sadly I have no suggestions(This did not happen to me). A tip to help you is to go back to your computer and re download the Ocarine Program and put the codes on the SD card again and go try it again in your Wii. If this still does not work then I have no clue what happened.

Hope this helped and I would also like to say the people who you are talking about who have been hacking you are usually the same people who are one of the top 10 racers for Mario Kart Wii.

I would just like to say, none of your hacker stories compare to mine. I got stuck playing in a race with 5 hackers who could change their points from 1 to 35001. During the race they ALL ganged up on me by throwing non-stop green turtle shells at me, bombing me repeatedly, then all cornering me and using big mushrooms and stars simultaneously to hit me, and run me over for about 5 minutes straight. It was officially a Mario Kart gang rape. They are:[J]Hacker.System(star)KingPotatoheadInanenBaby

Heyy Rosalina here with another update!! While trying to get hacks for Mario Kart Wii my brother and I first tryed to use Ocarina...this did not work. We do not know why this did not work and honestly we don't care. Instead of driving ourselves crazy trying to get it to work we used another program that does the same thing. My bro and I used Gecko OS Ver 1.9. Gecko OS worked perfectly. For all you people out there who want hacks I suggest you try Gecko OS. A problem I had started to have while using hacks was that we could not switch the items. Whatever was first on the list of hacks I would use would be the only hack I could use unless I changed the order. My bro and I have still not figured out how to switch items, but are working on it. In life you don't just fail. There are times when one succeeds. My bro and I found out how to use hacks during time trails. Using hacks wasn't a problem during versus mode, Grand Prix, and Battle, but it was a problem during Time Trails. When we went to Time Trails after using hacks it would just take the hacks away. To use hacks during time trails all you do is use your 3 mushrooms and then continusly press the 1 and 2 button to get 1 power. My name on Mario Kart Wii is Sun Kiss and my friend code number is 146217466697. That's my hacking account. My non-hacking account is ?????????? and my friend code is 434000506574. My brother's name is SeeReplay and his friends code is 021663401494. Heyy Hunter K, I'm a little mad at you cause when you posted my comment about getting hacks you changed it a little. FYI thats illegal.

I'M planing on get MK soon i just hope i encounter a few hackers while online i wanna vs a lot to see if without hacks you can destroy a hacker BTW dude talking bout guy that kept waiting for you search on Google for the MK shortcuts to get away from him/her.

the gayest douchebag hacker i encountered had to be when i was on rainbow road and i pushed this guy into the hole. then he magicaly apeared next to me and then he kinda like teleported in front of me then he somehow made his character give me the finger and he just vanished. XD

Yesterday we encountered hackers for the first time on MK online. We noticed one racer not moving, then jumping ahead and there were bananas everywhere...some were lined up in a row horizontal and there is no way they were dropped that way by a kart. This person ended up winning the race. Another hacker was on by the name of "Pass Me And Die" which is exactly what would happen if you tried to pass him.

None of that really compared to what happened to me by someone who was NOT a hacker later on. I was racing on Delfino Square and had a pretty fair lead on everyone else. I had just gotten above 7000 points to beat my boyfriend and I was SO excited. So just as I approach the second lap we notice there is a guy just sitting there at the starting line not moving. His name was HERPES!!! Ugh. Anyway when I passed him he started moving and chased after me the entire race. Every good item he got (as the last in the race) he would use to come after me...he'd chase me with stars and back up to hit me again if he passed me. After this fun and almost everyone in the race passing me his last blow to me was a lightning rod where he continuted to hit me as I was little all the way to the finish line. I got last place and lost over 100 points.

To all of u bitchy people who hate hacks: LoLz, ur all gonna face Hell soon! I just created a hack that adds a new item to the game: Dark Bowser! It aint perfect, but basically u can just drop him behind u, and he'll burn the shit out of anyone nearby! Plus, he never goes away! Ive hit a lot of people online with this, and soon I'll be coming 4 all of u!

I do hack, and it isn't bad if you DON'T TRY TO WIN!!! I only have unlimited stars, moon jump, instant mini turbo, and disable water boundaries, so I can't do any real harm. It's fun, so u lozers who think hacking is a waste of time, it actually makes the game fun. Wow, why am I talking to these peeps. :P

---> tsk, tsk, tsk.."Mr Bean" Englands top hacker. But also nice at the same time. Just for future references.. NEVER BOOST AT THE BEGINNING OF A RACE WITH A HACKER IN THE ROOM. HE'LL GET YOUU. anyway, Mr Bean will mess with you for 1 maybe 2 laps or so. and he'll let you alone on the third one. And if you wanna look for me playin'', im ">>QC, " with the little TM sign at the end. im pretty good with a Golden Wheel and 2 stars.

Some fcuking nomark losers in one of the online games I was playing were pulling this sh!t...I had spent ages getting my rating up to 7,300 (lost 300 points in 3 games before I realised these tossers were cheating) without ever having to resort to cheating and these guys were invincible from the start, firing shit all over the place....what a bunch of pricks, they have ruined for me what was one of the best online games I ever played. Nintendo need to get a grip of this shit and stop these arseholes being able to connect...

Don't know why you guys are having a big sook about hackers. I think a lot of them make the race more entertaining.

Granted, there are hackers who are complete dicks, who just do it to win, and they're no fun at all. I've raced several though who just bomb the shit out of people, shells and bananas and cubes everywhere. It makes a boring race more fun. Generally these hackers don't try to win (which is why many of their points are around 6k.... unless they hack it up to 35000).

BTW nintendo DOES do stuff about hackers, they get banned from races, or kicked out of the group. If you do anything unusual in a race (like throwing excessive items... or even driving backwards for too long) they'll kick you out.

I raced against a hacker called Jesus C. Despite being a hacker, he was an awful racer. He started attacking me with unlimited red shells. Went for about half a minute until I crawled to the item boxes, nabbed a mega mushroom and squished him. He chased me around the track, throwing red shells and such but he wasn't a very good racer so I just left him behind.

Also, to everyone having a sook about hackers, lighten up for crying out loud. It's a GAME. Hackers make races more interesting, granted if they are FTL hackers who don't do it to win.If you run unto a hacker you don't like, the solution is simple - leave the group. Wow, problem solved, how hard was that?

I think the hackers are pussies with no skills and small weiners....unless they are girls, then they are no dick pussies....btw ....I have beat a boatload of you hackers by skill alone......maybe learn how to drive.

i was playing with some person named XD . that idiot used cheating for the reason to only get to first place. it's only exciting and funny for someone to just focus on hitting people without even caring if they're last place.

ok, hackers, i hate you all with a passion. i dont give a fup if they get last anyway, theyre freakin jerks. just because were not all 3stars who can beat hackers with our eyes closed, doesn't mean we should stop complaining and leave the race. its too flippin hard to leave the race, AND you get automatic last. how about you hackers just go do something productive and leave the people who will actually PLAY alone? im tired fuppin hackers ruining the game. its not fun to have a clear lead destroyed by some camper or teleporter with regenerating points leavin bombs and shells & all that crazy mess.

watch out for anyone with clear hacking signs like gold stars in their name, over 9999, or names that blatantly say theyr a hacker. just try to get through it, its SO refreshing on the rare occasion a hacker gets kicked out

I don't know why you guys are mad. They make the game fun and challenging. I wanna meet another one, but it's been more than 3 months. They're only fun when leaving items everywhere or attacking other hackers. in my opinion, I like these hackers.

yeah last night i was playing my mariokart wii with my sister and we both knew right away that we were facing a bastard hacker. His nickname was some unintelligible series of colorful symbols, before the race had been voted on we just stared and said to each other OMG WTF did you see that? Then the actual race began. Sure enough, the prick wasnt even subtle, he blue shelled the player in first position and subsequently blew up everyone around him before the countdown even started. Then he used nonstop stars and blue shells on people that werent even in first place. it pissed me off! but the most hilarious part was the end of the race. The prick still came in last! I would call it fitting justice if he didnt have a 9999 vp score!

will i was just playing me in this other guy next race 10 hackers show up in blew the hell out of me in that guy but atleast even i did lose they still gave me points in now today i went from 7000 to 9999

i got to say im kinda liking the hackers its funny in on jungle parkway all the haxers were on the brige throwing bombs stars in i made it through without getting intel i got by the blueshell -_- its so extreme in i kept winnig because all the haxers is trying to get us to leave in u know wat i didnt leave sure enough they begin to stop bothering me in went on with other people

ok, i have 2 young children, who love playing Mario Kart online, and to see them upset when they are doing well, and some hacker ruins the race for them, they are just human waste, they have to remember that there are young children on there, who dont know about hacking, and who just want to have fun playing the game for what it was designed to be, not have the game ruined but some dickless idiots who think its fun to bully, i hope they are really proud of themselves, i suppose they kick and beat up babies too, to be honest, i hope they all crawl up thier own backsides and rot...slowly...

My sis has encountered the best hacker ever compared to your stories. She got on and the wifi game and the whole game was rigged and EVERYONE had unlimited items and they weren't all hackers then they all had billion points. Then later, Everyone just FROZE except for the hacker. None could move and he was whooping everyone just by getting item boxes. This was on battle by the way.

I am an above average player,and it enfuriates me to be beaten by a cheat. On the other hand, I HAVE had some fun playing with hacks that pound everyone ( not trying to win). They are few and far between. Most are just dicks cheating for self advancement. I'm of the opinion they are talentless losers, and the info left by Rosalina is only going to multiply it tenfold, to include talentless losers who can't even hack for themselves. Get a life, play fair and lose if you suck! If you're outskilled and don't like it, join another race and hope to be lumped in with noobs. Don't fugg with people because you're inadequate !

but a few fucking shit days a go i found a hacker who goes by the name ELITEPOLAR I hate him he kept blue shelling everyone even at the fucking countdownbut he aint that good i got 1st against that dick

Hackers are annoying idiots most of the time. I saw this hacker a few days ago who shrunk everyone at the count down! Then he had star powers before he even reached a dice, before the race began! I found him to be strange, since he didn't do anything strange during the race. And also, hackers are only fun if you beat them. Or annoy them. I saw this hack killing people with the blue shells. He got me at least ten times. But the funny thing was, was that I always finished in second to him, right behind him. I bet that surprised him.

In another race,a hacker by the name of eggsanspera(or something similar, since the letters were not normal text) would kill the person (and people by that person) with blue shells, and use the star to kill them again. Then he would stop in a straight stretch, or narrow places (such as delphino square) and drop unlimited bombs, and throw green turtles at everyone behind him. The funny thing was that I simply sped right passed him, never getting hit by a green shell. He enraged me during the first race, since I didn't know who was the hacker. But I had the desire to beat him up in a race for hacking, with skill. I finally beat him in peach beach, by luck. On the last lap, in that s straight stretch,i had a bullet bill (he had tossed me into last) and flew right passed everyone into first, but I was just short of the finish line, with the hacker right behind me being super-sized while having a star. He was really trying to get me. Lol, but I beat him. He was kicked off, or he quit after 3 races.

I'm pretty sure I was racing a hacker by the name of John 3:16. Every time I saw him, he was giant and had a start ability. Before the race even started, someone threw a lightning bolt. Before we reached the first boxes, bombs were thrown. I was hit by no less than six blue shells. Then, I was about to finish the first lap, but couldn't. See, I kept getting hit by red shell after red shell. Like, every time my player got back up, another one would hit me. I was hit by no less than twenty before in between the twamp and the finish line (GBA Bowser's Castle 3). I finally had to quite because I couldn't go a foot without getting hit by a star power person (John 3:16), or red shell, or bomb.

Well here's my advice to u guys since I've beat hackers easily. If ur racing stay in last place and avoid the hacker then at last second pass everyone.If ur in battle then try not to get on the hackers bad side and hit everyone else so u don't lose points btw my id is:1893-4858-5416 add me and if u see a anime<3or.*. That's me ;P

I was playing mario kart online and there was this player named "AllvsMe." He was an absolute b****.He was throwing unlimited blue shells at everybody, and there were explosions left and right. He ended up winning the race.(You bas****). Everyone who was racing quit afterwards because of him. True winners don't cheat, especially when going against people online...not computer players.

i just went up aginst a major hacker. his name is yepat tm with three stars on each side of his name. in VS, when the light is red and there is a 2, he used lightnig and 1st place blue shells. then when we started he became huge and threw down tons of bombs. he can go across lava like it's not even there, change characters during the race, has 9999 points, will get last place, and not lose a single point.

I'm rlly good at racing and if a cheater comes I usually dodge stuff they throw at me (don't ask how) but even if I did lose like 1000+ it doesn't matter ill just gain it all back lol. I find alot more cheaters in battles then In vs. Personally I like playing with cheaters because it makes the game funny and challenging ... yep watching other ppl get killed and not you yep rlly fun^.^

Add me if you want:2022-3161-6756(I change my character every now and then so don't freak out)

same with me. this idiot called fat camel 1, had unlimited stars, and his mii voice was really creepy. another cheat was with this girl from japan, she was able to warp to the center of the course at the start, and she had unlimited of any item. it sucks...

this guy named, well um... he/she had ballons on both sides of the name Camren anyway he/she would let u get in first then blue after blue trutle shell while he was in star mode. it gets very old after a while. sorry for my bad spelling. and is it just me or no one is from minnesota besides me

theres a hackers named hacks suck and Ha(corpartion sign)ckssux they soo fun aleast until hacks suck came in he would use bullet bill and star mode then win also he used blue turtle shells at first it was fun then it was stupid so i just drove backwards and got disconnected

I run into hackers all the time, and to be honest they make online racing kind of crazy, but if your not really trying to get a higher VR its kind of fun to race a hacker. One time this one guy kept throwing blue shells at himself in first, and when he died he would drop 3 Mushrooms. The track was COATED in mushrooms by the end of the race! Also he had a friend that kept teleporting racers back 100 or so yards when they tried to cross the finish line. The race lasted about 20 min, and was pretty fun in my opinion.